Seoul, South Korea - South Koreans will go to a poll on Tuesday to elect a new president, a referendum widely seen as Yoon Suk Yeol and the governor of the Conservative Party.

Polls will be open nationwide at 6 a.m. Tuesday (5 p.m. Monday). Lee Jae-Myung, the candidate of the main opposition Democratic Party, is expected to win. Throughout the game, he maintained a double-digit lead primarily in polls against conservative rival Kim Moon-soo.

But no matter who is elected, the new president will have little time to celebrate.

The election comes nearly two months after the Yuan president was removed from office for the impeachment of the country's armed laws. Fierce confrontation in South Korea's parliament and public's life-action have exacerbated the country's political polarization and shaken South Korea's confidence in democratic countries.

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New President faces deeply polarized countries

Two major candidates from both major political parties have committed to uniting the country.

But each of them represents a deepening division in South Korea.

Leader Lee Jae-Myung served as opposition leader with the Yoon government after losing closely to Yoon in the 2022 presidential election. Yoon vetoed a record bill passed by an opposition-controlled parliament, and Lee's party blasted a series of government officials.

After the Yuan Dynasty declared martial law in December, Lee led his party to overthrow the party and eventually blasted Yoon.

He called the election "a decision between the return of the insurgents and the rebirth of the new democratic republic."

His rival Kim, who served as the former Minister of Labor, opposed the former president's impeachment and refused to call for a connection with him.

At an emergency parliamentary meeting in December, opposition lawmakers asked Yoon-joong's cabinet members to apologize for the martial law order, and Kim was the only one who refused to stand up and bow.

Conservative voters’ support for King as a presidential candidate has soared since, even though his general public popularity in early polls lagged behind other aspiring conservative candidates, who were even more critical of Yoon.

Analysts say "emotional polarization" captures South Korean public

"In the three years of the Yuan government and the five years of the previous government, South Korea's Gallup's Korean public opinion analysis research director Heo Jinjae said in a recent press conference.

In 2016, South Korea blasted another Conservative president over allegations of corruption and bribery.

At that time, nearly half of the MPs voted for impeachment president Geun-Hye. But this time, more than 10% did, “even if Yoon Suk Yeol’s improvisation is much worse than Park Geun-hye’s improvisation.”

The public is not so united this time. According to the poll, about 80% of Koreans support the park’s improvisation each, but only about 60% of Koreans want to improvise the dollar.

The president's supporters responded more positively this time. In January, when the court issued Yun-won's arrest warrant, more than 100 of his supporters smashed the court's window and rushed into the interior.

Experts say South Korea's polarization is more emotional than ideology.

"It's not a problem or policy position. People just hate the other side. It's an emotional polarization. So it's a conflict between us and them, a conflict between good and bad things."

In the post-election survey of Gallup Korea in 2022, voters selected one of the two main candidates, and the “resentment of other candidates” was one of the voters.

Yoo said parties are increasingly relying on tougher speech and extreme stances to attract more struggling supporters.

During the campaign, conservative candidate Kim Jong Il responded to the impeachment president's allegation that the opposition was a "family" and said he would "punish" them because they "try to turn this great democracy into something worse than those of Hitler, Kim Jong-un, Stalin and Xi Jinping."

Yoon's staunch followers also repeated his baseless allegations of election fraud and judicial bias.

Meanwhile, Koreans' trust in democracy has declined.

In a recent survey headquartered by the Seoul-based think tank East Asia Institute, more than 30% expressed doubts about election fairness. Among the council's supporters, 30% say that dictatorship can be better than democracy.

Favorite face policy issues, early accusations

Liberal candidate Lee has tried to attract more modest voters since the beginning of the presidential election, emphasizing pragmatism and national interests. He even said his party was a "central right party."

He also vowed to promote a coalition between South Korea and the United States and continue to work with Japan in trilateral terms, which seems to have caused conservative voters to worry about his foreign and security policy stance.

Meanwhile, he distanced himself from a more progressive agenda, such as enacting anti-discrimination bills and amending rape laws to include involuntary sexual conduct.

But it remains to be seen whether his right-right policy shift will help bridge the emotional gap with his most intense critics if he is elected as expected.

In the nearest one pollingmost respondents said they found Lee “impossible”. This response is particularly strong among younger and older voters - those groups that support the Imperial President.

Lee has not addressed several court trials facing his allegations of corruption and election violations, which he claims were politically motivated.

If elected, he will need to face these challenges quickly. The presidential election is immediately simplified inauguration without a transition period.